The interior minister announced the final results for the 128 parliamentary seats from all 26 districts at a news conference. The tally showed the winning coalition with 68 seats versus 57 for the Hezbollah-led alliance. Three seats went to independents. The allocation was largely unchanged from the outgoing legislature, ensuring that the same disputes will continue to roil the political scene.
Not that the Lebanese solved their problems with this vote. But they declined to make their problems immearably worse by just voting the thugs into power.
Now we shall see the form of violence that the pro-Hezbollah faction will embark on, having been denied the clean win at the ballot box.
